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1 NEW TESTAMENT SURVEY DR. NEAL HEGEMAN MIAMI INTERNATIONAL SEMINARY 14401 Old Cutler Rd. Miami, Florida, 33196 786-573-7000 2 INDEX Working Schedule Day by Day Schedule Teacher and Student Guide Lesson I Lesson II Lesson III Lesson IV Lesson V Lesson VI Lesson VII Lesson VIII Lesson IX Glossary Appendix 3 WORKING SCHEDULE PURPOSE: The New TESTAMENT SURVEY course is designed to equip the students with: 1. general knowledge of New TESTAMENT authors, book contents, Biblical culture and principles of interpretation; 2. methodological tools with which to study the New TESTAMENT ; 3.

2 Educational and academic resources to use in teaching others. RESOURCES: In order to accompish the above mentioned purpose the lecture series on the New TESTAMENT of Dr. Sproul, Dust to Glory, will be used; they will be complemented with the lectures notes of Dr. Neal Hegeman; and reading assignments in Dr. Gundry s book, SURVEY of the New TESTAMENT . ORGANIZATION: students will get together with the professor or a facilitator for 10 sessions in order to work through the 9 lessons and the final exam. The main purpose of the student classes or sessions is to review the work for the particular lesson, review the questions and homework, and watch a segment of Sproul s video.

3 EVALUATION: 1. Attendance and participation (20%). 2 points for each class session (one point for hour attended) 2. Homework assignment complete for start of class (20%). 2 points for completing Gundry s questions before coming to class 2. Mini-exams (20%) 3. Essay (20%) 4. Final Exam (20%) STUDY SCHEDULE LESSON I A. OPENING WELCOME AND DEVOTION Questionaire What do you hope to receive from this course? (write one page statement) B. INTRODUCTION TO NEW TESTAMENT AND BIBLICAL STUDIES 1. A VARIETY OF TESTIMONIES TO SCRIPTURES 2. CONFESSIONAL STATEMENTS 3. EXTRA-BIBLICAL VOCABULARY ABOUT SCRIPTURE 4.

4 WHAT JESUS SAYS ABOUT THE BIBLE 5. READING THE NEW TESTAMENT CHRONOLOGICALLY C. INTERPRETING THE NEW TESTAMENT 1. VIDEO: from Sproul's "Knowing Scripture." 2. INTERPRETER'S LITERACY TEST 3. INTRODUCTION TO CHARTING D. GRAECO-ROMAN CULTURE'S INFLUENCE IN BIBLICAL TIMES 1. GUNDRY QUESTIONS FOR LESSON I: Ch. 1 (p. 21): 1,4; (p. 43): 1; Ch. 3 (p. 56): 1,2,3. LESSON II A. JUDAISM B. THE CANON AND TEXT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT C. VIDEO: SPROUL on the INTERTESTAMENTAL PERIOD (#31) D. CHARTING MARK 1. DIVIDE UP INTO GROUPS for charting 2. GUNDRY QUESTIONS FOR LESSON 2: Ch.

5 4 (p. 85): 1,2,3. 4 3. PREPARE FOR QUIZ, CHAPTERS 1-4 OF GUNDRY, plus some lecture notes LESSON III A. QUIZ #1: 10 MINUTES REVIEW OF CHARTING RESULTS (one photocopy for each student) GUNDRY'S QUESTIONS ABOUT MARK: Ch 7 (p. 125): 1-7. B. GUNDRY'S QUESTIONS ON LUKE: Ch. 9 (p. 205): 1-7. Sproul s Video: Interpreting Parables (#38) C. GUNDRY S QUESTIONS ON MATTHEW: Ch. 8 (p. 159): 1-7. Lecture on the Great Commission D. GUNDRY'S QUESTIONS ON JOHN: Ch. 10 (p. 252): 1-7 CHARTING JOHN LESSON IV A. INTRODUCTION TO ACTS GUNDRY'S QUESTIONS ON ACTS B. VIDEO ON ACTS: #47 C.

6 CHARTING ACTS D. VIDEO ON EARLY EPISTLES: #54 PREPARE FOR MID-TERM (CHAPTERS 1-4,7-11) Questionaire: Are you learning what you had hoped to learn? What suggestions do you have for the 2nd week? LESSON V A. MID-TERM: QUESTIONS (if not shown before, Video #54) B. GALATIAN LECTURE C. GUNDRY QUESTIONS: Ch12: 1,2,3 D. Lecture on essay development LESSON VI A. STUDY NOTES B. VIDEO #49 C. LECTURE ON ROMANS D. GUNDRY QUESTIONS AND CHARTING HEBREWS LESSON VII A. QUIZ B. VIDEO 51 C. GUNDRY QUESTIONS D. LECTURE/CHARTING/PREPARE FOR QUIZ LESSON VIII A. QUIZ: VIDEO #52 B. GUNDRY QUESTIONS C.

7 LECTURE D. CHARTING A PASTORAL EPISTLE LESSON IX A. GUNNERY S QUESTIONS B. JOHN S EPISTLE LECTURE C. VIDEO: REVELATION D. FINAL EXAM: ONE HOUR EVALUATION: 30 MINUTESFINAL 5 WRITTEN PROJECT TO BE GIVEN TO SUPERVISING PROFESSOR TEACHER AND STUDENT GUIDE LESSON I A. DEVOTIONAL: (choice of the professor or facilitator) B. INTRODUCTION Gundry reminds us about the importance of primary reading of the text, the Bible itself. He will chronologically go through the New TESTAMENT . Since this course is designed for teachers of the Bible a variety of Bible study methods will be introduced.

8 They are: 1. Literacy Training Method: using the acrostic of the alphabet, ask questions about the Biblical text. 2. Interrogative Method. Ask the basic question. 3. Charting. Diagraming the literary structure of the passage. 4. Dialectical Approach. The synthesis is the response of the thesis to the antithesis. 5. Biblical Theological SURVEY . Thematic theological commentary on the Biblical text. 6. Classical and Academic Study. A critical and scholarly commentary on the text. 7. Inductive Study. Reflection on what the text means to the reader. 8. Exegesis and proclamation. An exegetical study of the passage with the aim of proclaiming it to a live audience.

9 9. Devotional approach. Personal and theological reflection on a passage. 10. Memorization. Rote learning. In this section we reflect on what others have said about the Bible and what the Bible says about itself. IB. TESTIMONIES TO BIBLICAL TRUTH 1. THE TESTIMONY OF A VARIETY OF AUTHORS "The Holy Scripture is mightier than all whole of our Scriptures, the Old TESTAMENT and the New TESTAMENT , book whole inspired by God from beginning to end." "The New is in the Old contained; the Old is in the New explained." Augustine in a letter to St. "I have learned to hold only the Holy Scripture inerrant" in What Luther Says: An Anthology, 1:87.

10 "Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself, but because it contradicts them." God has put a period, do not change it to a question mark. "The Bible was never intended to be a book for scholars and specialists only. From the very beginning it was intended to be everybody's book, and that is what it continues to be. John "Since we are not favoured with daily oracles from heaven, and since it is only in the Scriptures that God has been pleased to preserve His truth in perpetual remembrance, it obtains the same complete credit and authority with if they had heard the very words pronounced by God Himself" (Institutes, ).